PART 8 - The Hidden Danger of Herd Mentality (and the Laws of Abundance Most are Violating)

PART 8 — The Hidden Danger of Herd Mentality (and the Laws of Abundance Most Men Never Realize They’re Violating)

From “The Liberated Man Initiation” Mini Coaching Series

By Cory Skyy

Hey brother —

Yesterday, I told you about the chapter of my life where I drifted into scarcity…
where I stopped taking care of myself…
where I slipped into the herd without realizing it.

Today, we need to go deeper into that —
because the herd mentality is one of the biggest dangers to a man’s power, clarity, and destiny.

Not because the herd is evil.
Not because people are bad.
But because the herd lives by laws that directly contradict a man’s nature.

And if you follow the herd,
you live by their laws.

And the laws of the herd are simple:

Play it safe.
Avoid discomfort.
Stay predictable.
Don’t question anything.
Don’t rise too high.
Don’t want too much.
Don’t trust yourself.
Don’t move differently.
Don’t think for yourself.

These laws kill a man from the inside out.

And brother…
I didn’t just understand these laws intellectually.

I lived them.

When I slipped into scarcity —
into fear, exhaustion, disconnection, and self-neglect —
I began unconsciously following the herd’s rules.

I found myself worrying about what other people thought.
I made decisions that weren’t mine.
I ignored my instincts.
I doubted my own intuition.
I chose comfort over truth.
I avoided risk.
I deferred leadership.
I chased security instead of alignment.

And here’s the dark part:

The herd rewards you for this.

They applaud your “responsibility.”
They validate your safety.
They praise your predictability.
They comfort your fear.
They normalize your shrinking.

And before long…
you don’t even realize you’ve abandoned yourself.

But the deeper I fell into the herd,
something else happened…

My abundance disappeared.

Not because the world changed.
But because I changed.

I stopped living by the laws of abundance — the laws I once lived effortlessly, the laws that created my best years, the laws that every powerful, aligned, conscious man eventually returns to.

Let me share a few of these laws with you —
not as theory…
but as someone who violated them, paid the price, and had to fight my way back.

ABUNDANCE LAW #1: A man who leads himself will always be provided for.

When I stopped leading myself…

Life stopped following me.

Every day you defer responsibility, clarity, direction, or decision-making…
you tell the universe:

“I am not the leader of my life.”

And the universe responds:

“Then I won’t give you the life of a leader.”

Provision follows leadership — always.

ABUNDANCE LAW #2: The universe mirrors the state of your nervous system.

When I lived in fear, chaos, and scarcity internally…

Life mirrored it back.

My money tightened.
My relationships felt heavy.
Opportunities dried up.
My energy drained.
Everything grew harder.

People think they need a strategy.

No.

You need a regulated nervous system and a calm, grounded masculine center.

Everything expands from that place.

ABUNDANCE LAW #3: A man receives in proportion to how much truth he’s living.

When I abandoned my own truth —
my desires, my boundaries, my voice, my standards —

life abandoned me right back.

Truth creates expansion.
Self-betrayal creates contraction.

It’s impossible to live a big life from a small identity.

ABUNDANCE LAW #4: Scarcity is not a financial problem. It’s an identity problem.

When I drifted into scarcity…

My bank account didn’t cause it.

My circumstances didn’t cause it.
My life didn't cause it.

My identity did.

I started seeing myself as someone who needed to settle…
who couldn’t fully trust himself…
who had to play small for safety…
who didn’t deserve more right now…
who should “be realistic.”

The moment you start believing that,
the world confirms it.

Not because the world is cruel…

But because the world is obedient.

“As within, so without.”

ABUNDANCE LAW #5: The man who questions his beliefs becomes free.

The man who doesn’t…

becomes a slave to them.

This one hit me the hardest.

I realized that almost NONE of the beliefs I was operating from were actually mine.

They were absorbed from fear, fatigue, stress, culture, family, society, social media, well-meaning people, and moments of emotional collapse.

And when a man stops questioning the beliefs running his life…

he stops living his own life.

THE MOMENT EVERYTHING SHIFTED

I remember the exact night I snapped out of it.

I was sitting alone — exhausted, disconnected, feeling the weight of living below my own standards.

And a question hit me:

“Whose life am I living right now?”

And I couldn’t answer.

Because it wasn’t mine.

It was a blend of expectations, fears, voices, obligations, pressures, and old identities I had outgrown.

And in that moment, something powerful cracked open in me.

Not an explosion.
Not a dramatic awakening.

Just a quiet, steady truth:

“It’s time to come home.”

Not to a place.
To myself.

My energy.
My values.
My voice.
My instincts.
My power.
My alignment.
My standards.
My truth.
My sovereignty.

And the moment I realigned with these laws…

Life opened again.

It always does.

A Mirror Question for Today

Where have you been living by the beliefs of the herd
instead of the truth inside you?

Sit with that one.

Tomorrow, we go into the internal compass —
how to rebuild the part of you that always knows where to go,
what to do,
and who you must become next.

This is where men start reclaiming their power.

Talk soon,
— Cory